HP’s latest trick to boost printer revenue was to distribute a firmware update with a six-month kill switch. The result? A great many printers suddenly stopped supporting third-party ink cartridges without warning last week.

In the self-driving car business, decisions are only as good as your sensor data. While the state-of-the-art Velodyne LIDAR that adorns benchmark research vehicles will set you back $80,000, winning the DARPA urban challenge probably requires the better part of a cool million. Unfortunately, spoofing these sophisticated sensors just got a whole lot easier.

Although lasers based on diamond have been around around for several years, they have never been very powerful. That’s beginning to change now as new CVD fabrication methods provide larger, and purer, diamonds.

New research into gothic cathedrals, particularly Notre Dame, has illustrated how cutting-edge imaging can find secrets of their construction long after the original designers have died or been omitted from history.

With the advent of Internet-connected phones, computers, and other devices, it’s become something of a non-issue to worry about whether it keeps time properly. Now it’s down to edge cases, such as an old car I had with a specific model-year problem that caused the dashboard clock to gain roughly 10 minutes every month. And I…

3D printing has become popular for fabricating parts from plastic, but using the technique with metals requires equipment that is a bit more higher end. Is this part of a general trend or will these exotic fabrication technologies be viable only for elite, niche markets?

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